swiping left and right does stuff...

[Ankhmo]

How do I stop it doing stuff?

I'll be reading a thread and scrolling and my finger will move 3mm left and it'll take me off to some other thread.

How do I stop this?

I can find a setting in my Firefox and it only does it on MN

Swiping right goes back to the previous page for me, but I have to really, really swipe - can't do it accidentally.
Sorry, probably no help.

Hello @Ankhmo it sounds like you now have access to the 'swipe' feature. When you swipe it takes you to the next trending thread. You can't turn this feature off, but if you are having issues with it, please can we ask you to take a screen recording and share it so we can see what's happening?

You can share here or send to [email protected] if you prefer. Thank you.

I don't know how to screen record on this phone.
It happens if I'm not precise with my scrolling down.
Sometimes I hold my phone in one hand and use my thumb to scroll. If I don't do it carefully, my thumb moves in more of an arc than straight up... iyswim.
So instead of scrolling, it thinks I've swiped.

Shame you can't disable it.
Oh well.

I’m getting daily issues with this feature too, mostly when I am trying to respond to a thread, if I try to highlight or move within my written text within the text box to edit it will often swipe to a different page. Sometimes when I’m reading a thread and scrolling down it does it too and takes me to the next page. It is happening very often, multiple times each time I access the site, and I’m certainly not trying to swipe left/ right, this issue coupled with the fact that Mumsnet is forever crashing and refreshing can make the site quite unusable sometimes. I’m accessing through safari on an iPhone.

I have taken a screen recording of the problem but can’t work out how to share it here, I can only see a way to share photos not videos.

It's irritating as fuck. I have a pixel phone and use swipe to move backwards and forwards. The added swipe feature on here is a pain in the arse as, same as with other posters, I can be reading a post, move my thumb 0.5mm and it's moved on to another post. I can't video the screen, as it's not a pre planned action.

It might be worth doing a poll to see if it's as popular as you think it is.

Thanks so much for taking a recording. Can you please email it over to [email protected], and include a link to this thread?

Same here. It's a fucking diabolical feature!

This "feature" is still extremely annoying...

Erm, yeah that needs a toggle off seeing as swipe left is used as a back function on a lot of phones.

Please make it possible to turn this off, it’s driving me mad!